How can you own numbers? Numbers belong to the world.

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.